单词 | ice pan |
释义 | > as lemmasice pan ice pan n. (a) any of various vessels or containers used for making or holding ice (now historical); (b) chiefly North American (originally Canadian) a slab of floating ice, detached from a larger expanse; an ice floe (cf. pan n.1 10a). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [noun] > piece iceseOE rand1633 ice rock1704 ice pan1842 1781 Hibernian Mag. Mar. 120/2 If an ice pan be filled with this material,..and it be suspended over the middle of a table round which several persons may be sitting, their breath will be frozen on the pan. 1792 J. Ll. Williams Let. 25 Mar. in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (1793) 83 58 I had a thermometer among the ice pans, during the season of making ice. 1842 Bombay Times 2 Feb. 77/3 There is very little ice made now. This..is partly ascribable to the Ice Pans not being filled every night. 1842 J. B. Jukes Excursions in & about Newfoundland I. viii. 291 Notwithstanding all this the excitement of being out in the punt, forcing our way through narrow channels between the ice-pans into lakes of water where old seals were sporting on every side, filling our boat with pelts. 1901 Geogr. Jrnl. July 40 The ice-pans appear to drift capriciously backward and forward. 1934 I. W. Hutchison North to Rime-ringed Sun xii. 120 Suddenly out of the mist, upon an ice-pan, stood the little shrivelled figure of an old Eskimo hunter of seals. 1963 Calgary (Alberta) Herald 20 Sept. Turquoise ice pans (last year's ice) cluttered the water just off shore. 1971 Times of India 13 Jan. (Times Weekly section) 11/2 The fitful and scanty supplies [of ice] from local ice-pans at Hooghly were of course there. 1993 Event Summer 120 Penguins..had been in the middle of the Atlantic, jumping from ice pan to ice pan during a squall. < as lemmas |
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